Closing

[00:00.51] And finally, everything worked out just fine.
[00:03.74] Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time.
[00:07.50] But after that night, things were never the same--
[00:11.47] Each holiday now knew the other one's name.
[00:14.76] And though that one Christmas things got out of hand,
[00:19.07] I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man.
[00:23.77] So, many years later I thought I'd drop in,
[00:27.63] And there was old Jack still looking quite thin,
[00:32.50] With four or five skeleton children at hand
[00:35.33] Playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band.
[00:38.70] And I asked old Jack, "Do you remember the night
[00:43.22] When the sky was so dark and the moon shone so bright?
[00:48.03] When a million small children pretending to sleep
[00:51.74] Nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak?
[00:55.14] And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back,
[00:59.61] To that long, fateful night. Now, think carefully, Jack.
[01:03.66] Would you do the whole thing all over again,
[01:07.29] Knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then? "
[01:11.97] And he smiled, like the old pumpkin king that I knew,
[01:17.99] Then turned and asked softly of me, "Wouldn't you?"
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